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July/August 2020

Julie Murphy

All those hours spent trying to
outstare the distance
of what the days must come to.

 Carl Phillips
  • Patricia Liu
  • Edwin Morgan
  • Carl Phillips
  • Laura Kolbe
  • Eduardo C. Corral
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Optimism

I made a fascinating box. Then I broke
some boxes down. I smashed them
into boxed juice. Then I pulled over at the Ocean
Hall to see what monster might rise up within

its watery walls. Of course, it would be
the sea dragon oscillating...
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Archery

           was still a thing, then. To have timed your arrow
perfectly meant watching the air for a moment
seem stitched throughout with a kind of
timelessness. To have straddled at last, correctly,
the storm of falling in love (and...
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